Legislative Roundup provides a morning digest of what happened
during the last 24 hours in the Louisiana Legislature, and what is
expected to happen in the day ahead. It will run every day during the
2014 legislative session.

The same committee, however, killed an effort to revamp the higher education scholarship program known as TOPS. Afterward, several other bills to tweak the program were given up by their sponsors.

Non-profits and other quasi-public entities that receive state funds would be subjected to the oversight of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, under a bill that passed its first hurdle Wednesday. During testimony, State Treasurer John Kennedy said one New Orleans area nonprofit received $326,000 in federal funds -- much of which its couldn't account for -- while receiving dozens of state contracts.

A coalition of anti-domestic violence advocates celebrated a win when three of their proposals passed in the House Criminal Justice Committee. The legislation increases penalties for domestic abusers, including banning them from
possessing guns for a decade.

Finally, the House Natural Resources Committee gave their stamp of approval to a bill that would put fines and community service on litterers that toss their cigarette butts on the street or out their car windows.